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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
8
The article records visits and travel among residents including Teakell of Shamrock visiting in Wellington last week with relatives and friends. It lists numerous people traveling to or from Haskell Lubbock Oklahoma Texas and surrounding areas for family gatherings and visits over recent days.
Pike Dysart of Plainview visits grandparents in Wellington. Dorothy McDowell of Shamrock spends weekend with Shamrock relatives. Rodgers family returns from East Texas. Various local residents conduct business and visit relatives in Amarillo Childress Wichita Falls Tulsa Mangum Hollis and Tyler over the weekend and week.
Oklahoma visitors include Mrs Fleet Pruden and family moving to Lubbock after Cecil Pruden’s transfer with Griffith Amusement Co. Others report weekend visits in Amarillo Childress and Dallas. Many neighbors and relatives travel for visits or to attend reunions and extended stays, with multiple small acknowledgments across towns.
Transient visits and cordial gatherings fill Plains social column. Wilma Ruth Forbis visits relatives, Rev. T. M. Johnston heads to Crowell for revival, Bolton guest at Lewis home, Dorothy Smith returns to Houston after two weeks with Annalu Harper, Posey family hosts from Eldorado and Oklahoma, Ora Mae White visits B L Acers family, Thompson family vacation in New Mexico, Joe Gibbon hosts, Harpers and Dorothy Smith honored in Childress, J T Hager hosts guests, Jack Gibson advertises road service, many now visiting relatives in Shamrock Wellington Altus Wichita Falls and Tucson. Garland Hampton returns from University of Arizona to Wellington area, Eva Mary Hampton to visit in Altus and Wichita Falls. Mrs. J G Gardner travels to Stephenville for ill mother.
Miss Frances Smith returns from Dallas and Arlington and takes a bookkeeper post at Capitol Hotel. Miss Savage remains at Cocke & Cocke as stenographer. Miss Anile Mae Donaghey leaves for College Station for A and M Short Course then tours Old Mexico for about eleven days before returning to Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith visit Dallas. C. BE High hosts guests with D. G. Ellis J. B. Castleberry, Z. B. Bobo, Fate Renshaw and Anna Bess from Rhome, G C Christian and Virginia Ann from Decatur, and Jimmie Gillentine of Denton.
The community gathered for church services in memory of Mrs. Fred Cornelius of Quemada Texas and attended her funeral in Shamrock on Sunday afternoon. Rev Crow and Rev John Crow of Memphis led the pulpit duties with Mrs. Cornelius’s relatives and friends in attendance.
Of Quemado Texas spent Saturday nights visiting in their mother and mother in law Mrs T J Lewis like Sunday Voyn Lewis is in at this writing We are wishing him a rapid recovery Mr and Mrs M H Sterling spent Sunday visiting Mr and Mrs C E Hightower and family Will Brewer spent Sunday night with Mr and Mrs J A Patterson
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